Boston Consulting Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – What you learn over 5 years at other companies you learn at BCG in 1 year.
Amazing Benefits
Challenging, exciting work with room to grow
A lot of fun soical events
Really smart, supportive friendly people you work with
The company really values their people and does everything in their power to accommidate the needs of their people and protect work life balance.

Cons – High expectations
Can be long hours

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – Fantastic, smart, driven people
Some phenomenal projects that are interesting, intellectually challenging and give you access to senior leaders unlike any other job
Great culture
Good attempt to create work life balance - but not always possible

Cons – Work hard and under pressure
Travel a lot
Variability in case quality - hard to tell how great a case is going to be before you start

Advice to Senior Management – Develop more local work for consultants
Try more work sharing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – Intelligent co-workers
travel opportunities
great place to work having just graduated college
excellent for ones resume
great benefits

Cons – travel may effect some people, was fine for me
would have liked more time outside of work

Advice to Senior Management – Great!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – Excellent exposure to smart people, great companies and interesting client work. Good training and development. Global network and excellent brand name to have on your resume. Generally nice people who mean well. Fascinating collection of individuals, with quite a bit of diversity for a top firm.

Cons – While the people are nice, the bar is high and it is still an up or out system, although the firm will help you along as much as it can.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to appeal more to the hearts, and not just the minds of employees. Leaders are often great problem-solves but not the best leaders of people.

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – Brilliant people, great training, excellent stepping stone for development.

Cons – Very stressful, long hours, lots of travel, highly volatile experience from case to case.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay at least 50% as much attention to ensuring employees are satisfied after they are hired as when you are recruiting them.

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great projects - you will definitely never get bored
Intelligent people - with lots of drive and passion
Possibility to travel around the globe - and get a flavour of local culture and behaviours through joint teams

Cons – High workload - 80 hours / week are rather standard than the exception
Cross boarder staffing - limited influence whether you are staffed abroad or in town
Top-down driven - strong involvement of majority of Partners with limited responsibility (depending on Partner)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group part-time for more than a year

Pros – - Demanding and challenging environment
- Flat hierarchy
- Working with intelligent people

Cons – - intense working
- Separation between consultants and Business Service Team

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -Talented, very smart employees
-Client focused
-Defined promotion track
-Global footprint and travel

Cons – -Leadership's political gaming
-Sharp divisions by region
-Shifting staff and growth to Asia

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group

Pros – Good working envrionmen, very supportive team

Cons – Long working hours and much bigger pressure than working in corporates

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boston Consulting Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work environment is excellent and conducive

Cons – People are more dependent on each other

Advice to Senior Management – Keep your ears and eyes Open

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend